John Salazar

Jan 13, 2025 | spectrumlocalnews.com | John Salazar |Craig Huber

AUSTIN, Texas  —  The Texas Supreme Court on Monday will hear arguments in Attorney General Ken Paxton’s claim that the nonprofit Annunciation House in El Paso is operating a migrant stash house. The case has been in and out of courts for a year.

Apr 1, 2024 | spectrumlocalnews.com | John Salazar

EL PASO, Texas — Another mass migration caravan is headed north for the U.S. southern border. Approximately 2,000 migrants began their journey in late March from Tapachula, Mexico, located on the Guatemala border. As of Monday, Spectrum News 1 has learned the group is headed to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, the sister city to El Paso, Texas. The route shown above is from Voir Dire International., a Houston-based group that has been tracking mass migration events for the last few years.

Mar 28, 2024 | spectrumlocalnews.com | John Salazar

LAREDO, Texas — Three dozen members of Congress sent a letter to U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas requesting an immediate fix to never-ending software problems and other identified issues with the CBP One app.

Oct 13, 2023 | spectrumlocalnews.com | John Salazar

AUSTIN, Texas — According to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data collected and studied by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University, the federal government issued 280,000 Notice to Appear (NTA) documents in the first 10 months of fiscal year 2023. That's a massive spike from 95,000 NTAs issued in 2022. Five years ago, in 2018, CBP issued 48,000. The last month TRAC collected data, July 2023, was a record month with 44,000 NTAs issued by CBP.

Jul 28, 2023 | spectrumnews1.com | John Salazar

TEXAS — U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) latest operational statistics, for June 2023, show a “significant and continuing decline in migrant encounters along the Southwest border.”The numbers released in July are the lowest since President Joe Biden took office 2 1/2 years ago.